Folding basket



(ModeL) J. H. DENNIS.

FOLDING BASKET.

No. 245,457. Patented Aug. 9,1881.

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' NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. DENNIS, OF NENVARK, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO OZIER B. WILSON,OF NORWOOD, AND WALLIS G. HOPPING, OF RIDGEFIELD,

NEW JERSEY.

FOLDING BASKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 245,457, dated August9, 1881. Application filed January 7, 1881. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES H. DENNIS, ofNewark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Folding Baskets, of which the following isa specification.

Figure l is a perspective View of the improvement. Fig. 2 is a sectionalend elevation. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same partly folded. 7

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to construct baskets in such a mannerthat they can be folded into small space for convenience intransportation.

In the accompanying drawings, A is the bottom of the basket, to the endedges of which are connected by hinges B the ends 0.

To the side edge of the bottom A are connected by hinges B the sides D.The upper corners of the sides D are cut off, and the triangular piecesD thus formed are connected with the main side pieces by hinges B. Thetriangular pieces D are also connected with the side edges of the ends(3 by hinges B.

To the upper edges of the ends O are connected by hinges B the outerparts, E, of the cover. Each half of the cover is made in two parts orpieces, E E, the adjacent edges of which are connected by hinges B.

To the ends of the inner parts or pieces, E, of the cover are hingedU-shaped catches F, or other suitable catches, to engage with the upperedges of the main or middle parts, D, of the sides, to keep the saidcover in place upon the said edges.

The hinges B are made of eye-straps connected by links to form loose ordouble joints, so that the parts connected by said hinges can fold downparallel with each other; or other suitable hinges may be used.

To the outer sides of the upper parts of the main side pieces, D, areconnected by hinges B the forked lower ends of the standards or sidepieces, G, of the handle.

G is the hand-piece of the handle, which is connected at one end withthe end of a side piece, G, by a hinge, B, and at the other end with theend of the other side piece, G, by a separable hinge, B. The separablehinge B is formed by opening the eye of one of the eyestraps into hookform, so that it can readily be connected with and disconnected from thelink for convenience in folding the basket.

H is the centerpiece, partition, or brace, which is'hinged at its loweredge to the bottom A, so that it can be folded down in either directionupon the said bottom.

To the upper corners of the partition H are pivoted hooks I, to hookupon the upper edges of the main or middle pieces, D, of the sides, tokeep the said sides in place. The lower middle part of the partition Hmay be cut away, if desired, giving it a U form, as shown in Figs. 1 and2. In folding the basket the parts E E of the cover are turned back overthe ends 0, the hooks I are unhooked, and the partition H is folded downupon the bottom A. The hook-hinge B of the handle is disconnected andthe sides D are folded down, the one inward and the other outward,

which causes the triangular pieces D of the sides to fold down upontheir respective middle pieces and the ends G to fold inward, as shownin Fig. 3. The hand-piece G and one side piece, G, of the handle arefolded down upon the inwardly-folded side D, and the free side piece, G,of the handle is folded down heneath the outwardly-folded side'D, asshown in dotted lines in Fig. 3. The outwardly-folded side D and theside piece, G, of the handle are folded beneath the bottom A, the wholebasket being thus folded into small space, so that it can beconveniently carried.

Baskets thus constructed are especially useful in traveling, and forpicnics, marketing, and other purposes where they are carried in onedirection full and in the other direction empty.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Pat- 1. A folding basket having each of its sides in threepieces, the middle one, D, hinged to the bottom, and the end pieces, DD, hinged to said middle one and to one-piece ends, said 3. Thecombination, with the basket-ends 1a ends being themselves hinged to aone-piece hinged to bottom and sides, of a cover made bottom, asdescribed. in two parts, each part consisting oftwo hinged 2. Thecombination, with the basket-sides sections hinged to the top ofone endofbasket, made in three sections, D D D, hinged toas shown anddescribed.

gether, to the bottom, and to the ends, of the JAMES H. DENNIS.partition H, hinged to the bottom, and con- Witnesses: nected by hookswith sections 1) D of the sides, 0. SEDGWIOK,

as shown and described. 7 J. H. SCARBOROUGH.

